Inferencing Strategies
Literature Review
The research base that supports what I implemented came from multiple professional textbooks and research studies that were reviewed during my Literature Review process. In order to increase comprehension, many strategies need to be incorporated into daily instruction. The best way to infer what has happened in the story is to activate background so that students can think about how characters could be feeling, seeing, hearing, etc.
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Making Connections
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Visualizing
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Questioning
Strategies Used
Strengths of Connections, Visualizing, and Questioning
Weaknesses of Connections, Visualizing, and Questioning
Strong results of higher reading comprehension
Actively become engaged in reading
Think, visualize, and ponder about what they are reading
Distraction away from task
Distraction from correct text
False conclusions drawn
Development of false conclusions
Research to support
Literature Review
What was Learned and How it Affected Instruction
Through my research, I have learned strategies to make reading comprehension meaningful and worthwhile. The three strategies implemented have made students feel connected to their reading and as a result my instruction has become more purposeful and much more in depth. This is all due to the fact that students want to learn more and think deeper about the actions of characters.